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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
WISE WORDS.

Rebuke with soft words s;af'A''l idfu az
guments.
Services and kindness neglected make
friendship suspected.
He that brings the most of use into
his life lives the longest.
Never run into debt unless you see
plainly way to get out again.
Live by the day; you will have s:.dily
trials and strength accordingly,
The brave man is an inspiration to the
weak, and compels them, as it were, to
follow him.
1t is not only arrogant, but it is profit
gate for man to disregard the worlds
opinion of himself.
There are words that strike even harder
than blows, and men may speak daggers
though they use none.
Let us so use the moments OF the life
that is passing that they may win for us
a life that viii never end.
The gamesome humor of children
should rather be encouraged to keep up
their spirits and improve their strength
and health, than to be curbed or re-
strained.
BE content TO travel as you are able.
The oak springs from the acorn and does
not become tree at once. The mush-
room springs up in a night. But what
is a mushrooml Remember there must
be time to grow.
Said General Oglcthorpe to Wesley,
81 never forgive" "Then hope, sir
said Wesley, 'you never sin. Lord
Bacon said "He that cannot forgive
Others breaks down the bridge over
which he must pass himself. "
For want of self-restHint many men
are engaged all their lives in fighting
with difficulties of their own making,
and rendering success impossible by their
own cro5s- grained ungentleness; whilst
Others, it may be much less gifted, make
their way easily and steadily, and achieve
success by simple patience, equanimity
| and self control.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
The Injuries of Baseball Players.

DIR. Leuf contributes an article TO the
Medical AMI Surgical Reporter on the in
juries of baseball players. The doctor is
a player himself, and speaks from per
sonal experience as well as from obserya-
tion. He says that one of his fingers
was injured by ball five times in one
week, aud that all his finger have been
injured at least once. His treatment is
TO continue, and at every opportunity
either in the street, in the Office or upon
the tield-to firmly grasp the finger about
the middle and rub toward the tip. I'm
der this treatment the swelling, stiffness
and soreness diminish, and after some
weeks are entirely gone. The most
marked swelling of the hand, accompan-
led by great pain, -can be best relieved
by the application of water as hot as II
can be borue, the hand remaining In the
water for an hour, the temperature being
maintained during the whole time.
Nothing will do so much harm 10 a play
er as 10 abstain altogether from playing
because he has some trivial injury or sore
muscles.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

An electric headlight has been recently
introduced on an engine of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
which has given entire satisfaction in
regular Use, and has achieved some re-
markable results in Illuminating the
track ahead for great distance. A pho
tograph was taken by its light on the
railroad near Cleveland, showing the
telegraph poles clearly for three-quarters
of mile ahead. A newspaper has been
read by the light four miles away, and the
time discerned by watch at distance
of nine miles. The reflection of the
light in the clouds has been noticed
twelve miles away. The light used is a
25OO-candle powerarc light with special
reflector designed for the purpose, and a
feed for the carbons, which gives con
slant light despite the jar of the train,
The engine for driving the dynamo is
also of special type, designed to over
come certain difficulties incident to tn,
conditions of working on running 10
comotive, and it is said to answer il
purpose admirably.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
Their First Appearance.

Sirnames were first adopted in the
reign of Edward the Confcssor.
Linen was first made in England in
1858, and only worn by the luxurious.
The Gagetto, of Venice, was the
original model of the modern newspaper.
Books in their present form were first
made by Attalus, King of Bergamus, in
S37.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks, and the first windmill by the Sar-
acens.
The model of the first English steam
vessel was laid before the Board of Ad
miralty in 1889.
The first royal letter was written by
Henry V. to the Bishop of Durham, Feb
ruary 10, 141S.
The first idea of electricity was given
by the friction of two globes of quick
silver in the year 1647.
The first book containing musical
characters was issued in 1495 from the
press of the celebrated "Wynken de
Worde."
Turnpikes were origir ated in 1866, the
sum of one penny having to be paid for
each wagon passing through a certain
manor.
The first advertisements known of in
England were in the shape of small
bills affixed to the doors of st. Paul's
| Church.
The first record of judges salary
gives e13S lbs 4d as the stipend of
Thomas Littleton, Judge of the Kings
Bench, 1466.
The first play bill issued froW Drury
Lane Theatre was on April 8, 1868, the
piece represented being: "The Hmorous
Lieutenant"
The first English newspaper was the
English Mercury, issued in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, and was in the shape
of a pamphlet.
The earl of Arundel (temp. Charles y
was the first person who brought over
to England from Italy the new way OF
building with bricks.
Carriages were first introduced into
England in 1880, and were for a long
time used only for the conveyance of the
sick and of ladies.
The first English almanac was brought
out at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 357,
and the first printed almanac appeared
in London about hundred years later.
The first balloon was made by Jesuit
about 1920. The idea was revived in
France by NJ. Montgolfier in 1888, anC
introduced into England the following
year.
The first striking clock was imported
into Europe by the Persians about the
year A. d. 800. 1t was brought as
present to Charlemagne from Abdella
king of Persia, by two monks of Je
rusalem.
The first spectacles were made at Flor
ence, at about the beginning of the four
teenth century by Salvino Armio d'Ar
miti, although their invention has beei
enormously credited both to Roge
Bacon and Alexander de Spina.
The first record we have of coal i
about 800 years before the Christian era
Coal was used as fuel in England a
early as S52, and in 1894 the first charte
to dig for 1t was granted by Henry III
TO the inhabitants of Newcastle-on
Tyne.
, The first glass window in England wa
one put in an abbey about ESQ. Glas
, windows, however, did not becom
general for many hundred years, and a
/ late as 1877 the glass easements at Ain
| wick Castle, the Duke of NorthumbeI
, lands seat, were regularly taken dow
] when the family were away from home
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
MAKING NORMAN BREAD.
THE STAFF OF LIFE IN FRENCH
FARMHoUSES.
Loaves Like Cart Wheels Baked
Once a Notwithstanding i'm the
Family Dough Trough.

Loaves Like Cart Wheels Baked
Once a mountaineering in the
Family Dough Trough.
One summers day we stopped to call
at the stone farmhouse of Monsieur
Duval, says Ernestine Dingle, in the
Epoch. Ernestine, the eldest daughter,
was housekeeper in her dead mothers
place, and she it was who brought out
the amber-colored cider, the goats
cheese and the heavy, hard country
bread 1t is an essential of French peasant
hospitality to offer these things to WIS.,
itors.
The loaf she took from the shelf was
one of half dozen others leaning against
the brick wall. These loaves resembled
cart wheels, and had been baked in six
quart milk pans. Ernestine cut the loaf
with small saw made for the purpose.
Nothing less than such saw or pirates
cutlass could sever that homely, but
wholesome pain rassis.
These loaves we knew. were baked
only once month. Bread-day in n
Norman peasant family is like washing
day on an American farm, in the respect
that it comes at regular periods. We
| judged that bread-day in this cottage
was approaching from the fact that only
six loaves remained of the original thirty,
or thereabouts.
! After our little lunch, Ernestine took
us through the orchard to picturesque
stone building, where the bread was
made. This building had once been part
of an ancient abbey, and amid its IVY
covered ruins we could still trace fine
sculpture and bits of armorial designs,
but inside there was no trace of art or
architecture. 1t was really a Norman
hen-house. We saw several pairs of
sabots or wooden shoes hanging from
the wall and looking as if they had been
whitewashed.
In one corner of the place was large
space enclosed with boards. This was
empty, but like the sabots, it suggested
whitewash or mortar making.
Ernestine told us that this was the fam
lily dough trough. Here, once a month,
came her father and the hired man to
'set" the yeast rising. Flour and water
were stirred together with the huge
wooden spades, like snow shovels which
hung with the sabots upon the wall.
When the mass, thoroughly beaten to-
gether, had risen and assumed dark
leathery consistency, then came the tug
of war. The two men put the sabots on
outside their ordinary shoes, jumped in
upon the dough and commenced the
kneading. The way they did it was tc
jump and prance and flourish like operG
dancers; to stamp and kick like horses
to exercise themselves till the perspira
ton streamed off them and they had nj
strength left
After this process the dough was pu
into the pans, and then baked in the
huge oven at the rear of the abbatial hen
house!
, In all Norman towns half-clad mel
| may be seen loungng about bake-hous
doors. Their legs and feet are bare ant
floury, and as they tread the streets W
: know that they have just come from o
are returning to their usual bread -kncad
ingl
t IMon Dieum exclaimed Ernestin
when we told her that in America bread
making was woman's work. "Mo
Dieu! how cruel your men are! Irathe
: shoe horses!n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

Lucca this afternoon. Why not take
your sister to the Bagnil She could have
every care there
This most rational suggestion was acted
upon, and Conrad and the two sisters
wers slowed away as comfortably as cir
cumstances permitted in the really com
modious vehicle. A few days later Mr..
Jeremy Calcott found it convenient to
visit the Bagni di Lucca.
Conrad's escapade had a curious effect
on his erstwhile so adoring mistress; when
she recovered from the fever his loss
caused her, she had totally forgotten his
existence; nor of her faithful sister Dora
had she slightest recollection more; the
shade on her feeble intellect had become
a dense cloud, which only the light of an
other world could penetrate. In private
asylum, her painless, mindless existence
continued its march, perhaps into old
age such lives are spared, while useful
ones are extinguished in this strange
world-but Dora's sacrifice was at an
end
A year later she and Jeremy were
married. d.-Frdnb Leslie's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

NIGHTFALL-

The last red beam has faded from the sky,
While, in its wake, sombre tint of gray.
Half light, half dark, so restful to the eye,
Comes DER the heaven--'tis the end Of day
Above the distant hills the crescent shines,
And wakes brighter as the night grows
dark,
The gentle breezes sway the stately pines,
And from the meadow glints the fire hy's
spark.
Throughout the erstwhile crowded marts OF
trade,
Deep silence reigns instead their busy hum,
And shadows thicken as the gray lights fade,
And gath'ring darkness proclaims night has
-Georoe OtUen Koch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

A piece of ground in Philadelphia,
with frontage of sixteen feet on Chest
nut and thirty-four feet on Fourth street,
was recently sold for $50, 900 or 1856 a
square foot. 1t was necessary to COM
plete building site in the heart of the
city, and therefore commanded this ex-
traordinary figure. This is the highest
price ever paid for real estate in America.
The one next to it, perhaps, was on Wall
street, New York city, where lot sold
for $145 a square foot.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

The New Orleans Times Democrat
makes the statement that in recent years
the health of Louisiana has been i'm
proved fifty per cent. Diseases that
ravaged New Orleans and all the chief
towns, )" it says, ''have been kept out by
better sanitary methods and by an effect
i've quarantine. The death rate is forty
per cent. less than in ante-belum days,
and is now as low as in any portion OF
the country; the rate is fifty per cent,
less. If human life and human health is
to be counted in the balance, Louisiana
has made immense strides forward as
compared with the most prosperous
period before the war.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

One of the regrets of the Israelites
when they ''in their hearts again turned
back to Egypt" was for the onions
which they used to eat in the land of
their bondage. 1t is to be noted that
Egypt is again becoming a land of onion
culture. Large quantities are yearly
shipped to Europe from Alexandria and
other ports. A few years ago the trade
hardly existed, while in two months of
last year alone IA, 600 tons were shipped
TO Liverpool.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

A nugget of gold weighing 1856 ounces
and five pennyweights was recently
found near Breckenridge, Cal. 1t is
worth as a specimen close to S., 900. 1t is
said to be the largest lump of gold ever
found in California, but one almost, if
not quite as large, was taken from the
Little Annie mine in Summit District,
Rio Grande County, late in 1876 Aus
tralia produced the largest nugget of
gold ever discovered. 1t weighed 1856
pounds, and was found ut Ballarat near
GeelonC
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
Gold Leaf.

The american StdtiORer says that from
two to four million dollars worth of gold
is used annually, in the shape of foil
for gliding, lettering, edging of books,
sign and ornamental painting, and den
tistry; gliding taking the greatest share.
A cubic inch can be beaten out so as TO
cover 3, 500 square feet, and twenty
double eagles could be drawn out into a
wire that would girdle the globe. For
foil, bars SXlx4 inches are cast and then
rolled into ''ribbons" as thick as a finger
nail These are then weighed into
packages called "beatingsn of % ounces
each. One of these is divided into 1SO
pieces one inch square and built up
into "kutch," layer of gold alter
mating with one of prepared paper 2t
inches square. Then with an
eighteen pound hammer kutch
is beaten till the gold has spread
out as wide and long as the paper Next
they are piled in 'shodern (Which are
made of pieces of square goldbeater's
skin each four inches) and beaten till the
slips of gold spread AS large as the slips
of leather. The prepared paper is a pc
culiar kind of parchment made from calf
skin, and the goldbeater's skin from the
large intestines of the OK. These four
inch ''shoderleaves" are quartered into
pieces of two inches square, and packed
again into molds five inches square and
beaten till spread to nearly the same size
as the molds, which are made Of the same
stuff as the shoder. They are now ready
to be sent TO girls TO be trimmed and pgi
up into books holding twenty five leay o.
each three and hall inches square
These books are sold singly or in Qacks
numbering twenty books.
The high four posted beds Ola centur-
/ am ara aofain napular
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

II is well to know the safest kind of
tree to take refuge under in a thunder
storm. A farmer, who has known of
twenty eight forest trees being struck by
lightning, says that nine were oaks,
seven poplars, four naples, three will
lows, and the others were chestnut,
horse chestnut, walnut, hawthorn and
elm. 1t is a popular belief in South
Carolina that lightning never strikes the
nalmetto
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

The New York Sun asserts that "the
mosquito can be readily knocked out by
hanging in the window a bunch of green
pennyroyal herb, or where this is not OBJ
tainable few drops of the oil of penny
royal upon the pillow will insure safety
from their attacks and a nights rest.
SPennyroyal herb, however, is common
Gterywhere.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

? A new theory of the final destruction
of the earth is that the polar ice is pene-
trating the interior of the globe like a
wedge, and that as soon as it reaches the
furnace there will be an explosion that
will split the world into pieces too small
for truck patches.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

james Parton says: Earning appears
10 have completely passed out of the
thoughts of young men in the Eastern
States as desirable career. Is not this
somewhat strange in Nation, the foun-
ders and first rulers Of which were farm
ers almost to man2n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

According to the statistics gathered
by DIR. Lindsley, of the New Haven
Board Of Health, consumption claims a
larger ratio of victims among the foreign
born population of New England than
among natives. The Irish are particu-
larly subject to it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

Sixty thousand orange trees are on
their way to California from Japan,
where they were shipped on board of an
English bark in the harbor of Yoko-
hama. With them also comes a mis-
cellane ,us assortment Of over 10000
trees and shrubs, indigenous to Japan,
which it is proposed to acclimatize in
ft.1.fu....
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21
TAKE 1T EASY"

TAKE 1T EASY"
Do not hurry,
Do not worry,
AS this world you travel through,
No regretting,
Fuming, freting,
Ever can advantage you.
Be content with what you've won,
What on earth you leave undone
There are plenty left 10 do.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-21

The high four posted beds Ola century
ago are again popular.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-25
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.

The balloting began at Austin
to-day for United States Senator
to succeed Senator Maxey. The
HERALD has naught to say against
Senator Maxey, but believes that
twelve years is long enough for
one man to serve in a representa-
tive capacity in this American re-
public, and that a younger and
more vigorous man, fresh from the
people, would best subserve Texas
interests. And, too, the HERALD
has of late frequently expressed
its wish to see Governor Ireland
elected as that man.
This duty of the Legislature is a
very important one. Texas Dor
der protection, Texas-M e xic an
commercial relations particularly,
can better be guarded by John Ire
land than any other Of her promi-
nent men; for, being western
man, he has given the border in
terests especial study and atten-
ton, and the fact that Texas is to-
day about to be paid near two mil
lions by the Federal government
for Texas self-protection on the
border and claims of its citizens
for losses sustained in Mexican
depredations, is due more to the
persistent efforts of Gov. ireland
than any other influence. Then,
on the important and vital ques-
tons Of tariff reform, corporation
legislation, public education, silver
coinage, etc., he is in full accord
with the democratic platform and
the necessities of our people and
section. The HERALD expects to
have the pleasure of reporting The
votes of Strong, Rugal and Heath
for Gov. Ireland on the second or
third ballot, and each ballot there
after until he is elected.
Besides the ability and merit of
the man, and the interest of Texas
involved, no man more than John
Ireland deserves the honor of pro-
motion to this high and response
BILE position.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-25
The Rascality Of Deacon Mills,

New York Sun.
There is aqueer little buryingground
near the White Bridge on the shores
OF the Sound. 1t is in a nook and
is bounded by powders against which
the sea beats drearily in winter though
the salt mists keep the grass green
long after the distant hills and woods
have become gray and bleak. Here
some days ago they carried little
casket. 1t was so light that the body
it contained might have been
that ola child, but old age, white hairs,
and the silent dust of feeble gentle
man were enclosed therein. There
were no mourning friends, save one
stern man OF middle age. The grave
received its own. The Bonded gate at
the entrance OF the little place OF the
dead was closed, and will never again
be opened to funeral. The burying
ground is tenanted with all who will
ever rest there, for it is family plot,
and therein has now been gathered
the last one OF the Bows.
Strangely enough, on the same day
that Deacon Dow was buried, his old
playmate, business associate and
fellow church officer, the late Deacon
Mills, was placed to rest in the beauti.
iul cemetery, whose lofty monohths
and quaint monuments may be seen
by the sailors as they skim along the
waters OF the Sound. The great
brick church had been thronged by
those who wished to pay their last
respects to Deacon Mills memory,
and long line ofslowly, solemnly NOV
ing carriages followed the body to the
grave. There, amid costly stones erect
ed to the memory of those OF his family
who had preceded him, was dug the
grave OF Deacon Mills, and men will
not for many years forget that this
strong man lived once among them.
For Deacon Mills was strong and
stern and firm willed, and great were
his riches. lie bad built chapel,
had given a bed to the hospital, had
endowed q theological professorship
and had created many business enter
prises. All that he had touched in
business life seemed to have turned to
gold. You may read in the sectarian
newspapers the account OF his life, and
to his career business men already
point when they wish to show the
model man.
But no one hears OF Deacon Dow.
He was agentle man. He went shrink
ingly, modestly through life. His last
days were those OF one dependent up
on charity, and he had seen tho sue
cessful career OF his old playmate
without other emotions than those OF
pleasure. They played in childhood
together. Then William Dow was
thought the more fortunate OF the
two. His father was we'll to do, while
John Mills had heard early in the
morning and late in the day the clang-
ing OF his fathers anvil. They had
gone to school together. Then Will
Jams gentleness was misunderstood,
so that the boys jeered him with de-
risive nicknames such as girl-boy; while
John, whose clothes we're not so
fine rs Williams, by his stub
born Will and imperious manner
commanded respect and won his
leadership They had begun business
ia. "a a.. ......- ||..... I..|II.-.. I.|
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-25
Waco Opposed to the New County.

WACO, Jan. 25.-County Judge w.
w. Evans is in receipt of letter from
Hon. Seth p. Mills, at Austin, which
states that there is n movement on
foot to organize new county, and to
do this a slice of old McLennan will
have to be cut of. Representative
Mills desired Judge Evans to 90 to
work at once and get up counter petit
tions. so the matter can be nipped in
the bud when it comes up before the
legislature. Judge Evans drew up
several petitions in accordance with
he | ions of Mr.. Mills, and
these will be signed by citizens of
McLcnnan county. Several will be
sent to the country and others will be
kept in the city. Nearly all citizens
here will sign these petitions, as they
are determined there shall be no part
of McLennan clipped off to form part
of any new county, and say if the
citizens of Limestone, Navarro and
Hill want new county let them cut
slices out of their own counties TO
make il.